Forget normcore. It’s time you acquainted yourself with gorpcore

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Kendall Jenner

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Gorp, a word used by hikers to refer to trail mix (Good Old Raisins and Peanuts), is about to influence your wardrobes very shortly. If you look up gorpcore, Urban Dictionary’s understanding of the term’s semantics goes thusly: “fashion design that is influenced by outdoors style, such as fleece jackets, fanny packs, windbreakers, puffy jackets, parkas, and hiking boots. rich people go glamping (glamourous camping) and wear gorpcore clothes.”

Long story short, the average puffer jacket and bum bags—clothes you struggle to look attractive in on a hiking weekend—are about to be mixed with the kind you wear to feel like a street style celebrity. Insouciance is key when sporting gorpcore—so what if you thought wearing hiking boots in the city is normal?

Brands known for making famously functional clothing like North Face, Patagonia and Birkenstock will be in focus. “These clothes are paired with painter pants, Vans, Hawaiian shirts, and Dickies because head-to-toe outdoorwear would be too literal, of course—it has to be thrown off to communicate the wearer is in on the joke. The outfit isn’t designer, but it is fashion, in the way that any aesthetic executed with intentionality—ever insistent and dissonant—can become ‘a look’,” explains Jason Chen of The Cut.

Inarguably, gorpcore will strike the male population harder as the spring 2017 runways have predicted. Demna Gvasalia of Vetements and Balenciaga is already ahead of the game; the popularity of Balenciaga’s puffer jacket is a clear indication that gorpcore, along with normcore, is here to stay.